CV, Naim 1 of 5 CURRICULUM VITAE SYED RASHID NAIM Senior Lecturer Director of Undergraduate Studies Department Of Political Science Georgia State University II EDUCATION Ph.D.: In Political Science, from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Areas:,, and Modern Middle East History. Dissertation: The Revolutionary Tradition in Islam and the Islamist Tendency in Contemporary Egypt. 1990. M.A.:. From the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Thesis: Regime Security in Saudi Arabia. 1981. M.A.: International Studies (concentration on West Asia and North Africa). From the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. 1979. G.P.A. 7.88/9.00 (letter grade A). B.A. (Honors): In History (minors in Political Science and Economics). From the Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. 1977. First Division. III LANGUAGE SKILLS: English, Urdu, Hindi, and Modern Standard Arabic IV PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: A. TEACHING Senior Lecturer, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, 2009-, Courses taught: Politics of South Asia Middle East in World Affairs Turkish Foreign Policy International Organizations Simulation Regional Organization Simulation Model Arab League Model United Nations
CV, Naim 2 of 5 Lecturer, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, 2002-2009, Courses taught: Politics of South Asia Middle East in World Affairs Model Arab League Model United Nations Visiting Lecturer, Georgia State, University, Atlanta, Georgia, 1998-2002. Courses taught: Assistant Professor, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, 1993-98. Courses taught: International relations Politics in the Middle East and North Africa (graduate & undergraduate) Islam and Politics (graduate) (undergraduate) Visiting Assistant Professor, Union College, Schenectady, New York, 1991-93. Courses taught: Foreign and Defense Policy Making in the Third World The Arab-Israeli Conflict Introduction to Middle East Politics Senior Thesis supervised: 13 Lecturer, University of California at Santa Cruz, Spring Quarter 1991. Courses taught: Government and Politics in the Middle East Islam and Politics Instructor, Department of External Studies, Oxford University, United Kingdom, 1989-91. Courses taught: Government and Politics in South Asia Islam and Politics Instructor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Extension Program, 1983-85, 1987-88. Course taught:
CV, Naim 3 of 5 Instructor, Department of political science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Summer 1987, 1988, fall 1987. Courses taught: Middle East Politics Developing Societies of the Third World B. RESEARCH: Research Fellow, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, St. Cross College, Oxford, United Kingdom, 1988-1991. Research included work on the theories of legitimacy in Muslim political thought with particular reference to the Middle East, and on a cultural and intellectual atlas of the Muslim world. Research for Ph.D. dissertation. Substantive areas looked into include the history of political institutions and political unrest in the Muslim world, the works of contemporary Muslim activists on Islamic Social and Political organization, and movements for Islamic political revival. Visiting Research Fellow at Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, St. Cross College, Oxford, United Kingdom, summer 1987. Developed project proposal for an intellectual atlas of the Muslim world. Field research in Egypt on topic of dissertation, 1985-86. Was non-stipendiary Fellow at the American University in Cairo for the year. Research on impact of nuclear proliferation and nuclear war in South Asia. Assisted in research for Stephen P. Cohen s The Pakistan Army: Images of War, Visions of Peace (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985). C. ADMINISTRATIVE Director Undergraduate Studies, Department of Political Science, Georgia State University 2010- Critical Thinking through Writing Initiative Georgia State University, departmental ambassador, Department of Political Science, 2009-2014 Member, University Senate Senator for the Middle East Institute, 2010 Member, Undergraduate Council College of Arts and Science, 2010 Member, Committee on Admissions and Standards, University Senate, GSU, 2010 Member, Program Review Committee, University Senate, GSU, 2011-2014 Member, Signature Experience Committee, GSU, 2012 Member, College of Arts and Sciences, GSU, Students Appeals Committee, 2011
CV, Naim 4 of 5 Member, Lecturer Promotion Review Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, 2011, 2012, 2013 Member (2007-2008), Governing Board Southern Regional Model United Nations. Responsibilities include development and supervision of program and attending bi-annual meetings of the Board Member (2004-2005) and Vice President (2005-2006), Governing Board Southern Regional Model United Nations. Responsibilities include development and supervision of program and attending bi-annual meetings of the Board. D. OTHER: Member Islam and the West Annual Forum on Islam and the West, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Oxford, UK Peer Referee for Middle East Studies manuscripts, Yale University Press. Peer Referee for Arabic and Islamic Studies manuscripts, University of Exeter Press, UK. Peer Referee for articles International Journal of Middle East Studies. Peer referee for articles for Journal of Islamic Studies, Oxford University Press. Peer referee for Manuscript, Routledge Taylor and Francis Books. Assistant Editor, Journal of Islamic Studies. Published by the Oxford University Press, 1988-90 Academic Consultant to Model United Nations Program, University of Surrey, UK Consultant Prudential Relocation Services, International Division Regular commentator and invited guest on Voice of America, Hindi Service on issues concerning the US and South Asia and the Middle East. Regular commentator on local radio and TV channels in Atlanta on current affairs to do with South Asia, the Middle East and Islam. Occasional commentator on National Public Radio, CNN, CNN International and Indian Satellite TV news programs on international and Middle Eastern developments Spoken extensively and run training seminars on Islam and politics, Middle East Politics and terrorism following September 11, 2001. Venues included Delta Airlines, Rotary and Lions Clubs, Churches and Synagogues and other civic organizations. Also appeared on NPR and local news channels to discuss 9/11 related issues.
CV, Naim 5 of 5 Consultant, International Workshop on A Nuclear Verification Regime in South Asia Program in Arms Control, Disarmament and International Security, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1989-90.